Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 91.djvu/795

 PUBLIC LAW 95-95—AUG. 7, 1977

91 STAT. 761

recovery of uncontrolled emissions emanating from the fueling of motor vehicles. The Administrator shall compare the costs and effectiveness of such technology to that of implementing and maintaining vapor recovery systems (taking into consideration such factors as fuel economy, economic costs of such technology, administrative burdens, and equitable distribution of costs). If the Administrator finds that it Regulations. is feasible and desirable to employ such technology, he shall, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation with respect to motor vehicle safety, prescribe, by regulation, standards requiring the use of onboard hydrocarbon technology which shall not become effective until the introduction to the model year for which it would be feasible to implement such standards, taking into consideration compliance costs and the restraints of an adequate lead time for design and production.". TEST PROCEDURES FOR MEASURING EVAPORATIVE EMISSIONS

SEC. 217. Section 202(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act is amended by Model year 1978 engines and adding a new subparagraph (C) as follows: vehicles. "(C) Effective with respect to vehicles and engines manufactured Ante, p. 751. after model year 1978 (or in the case of heavy-duty vehicles or engines, such later model year as the Administrator determines is the earliest feasible model year), the test procedure promulgated under paragraph (2) for measurement of evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons shall require that such emissions be measured from the vehicle or engine as a whole. Regulations to carry out this subparagraph shall be promul- Regulations gated not later than two hundred and seventy days after date of enactment of this subparagraph.". CERTAIN MINOR AND TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

SEC. 218. (a) Section 203(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act is amended by inserting the following before the semicolon: "or for any person to fail or refuse to permit entry, testing, or inspection authorized under section 206(c)". (b) Section 204(a) of such Act is amended by striking out "paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of". (c) Section 302(d) of such Act is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: "and includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands". (d) Section 203(b)(3) of such Act is amended by striking out "subsection (a) " the second time it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "section 202" and by striking out "country of export" in each place it appears and inserting "country which is to receive such vehicle or engine".

42 USC 7522. 42 USC 7525. 42 USC 7523. 42 USC 7602.



TAMPERING

SEC. 219. (a) Section 203(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act is amended by inserting " (A) " after " (3) " and by adding the following new subparagraph (B) at the end thereof: "(B) for any person engaged in the business of repairing, servicing, selling, leasing, or trading motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines, or who operates a fleet of motor vehicles, knowingly to remove or render inoperative any device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine in compliance with regulations under this title following its sale and delivery to the ultimate purchaser, or".

Motor vehicle related businesses.

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